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Does the Statutory Overtime Premium Discourage Long Workweeks?
Trejo, Stephen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
effects of overtime pay regulation on weekly work schedules. After controlling for workweek trends within industries, the … sharp expansions in overtime pay coverage resulting from legislative amendments and Supreme Court decisions produced no … discernible impact on overtime hours. This finding is consistent with a model of labor market equilibrium in which straight …
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Overtime Working in an Unregulated Labour Market
Bell, David N. F.; Hart, Robert A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999
overtime hours and average premium pay equations. Among other issues, four broad questions are of central importance. (a) What … are the impacts of straight-time pay and hours on overtime pay and hours? (b) Is premium pay positively related to the … length of weekly overtime? (c) What is the influence of collective bargaining coverage on overtime pay and hours? (d) Does …
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Long-Term Effects of Unpaid Overtime: Evidence for West Germany
Pannenberg, Markus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
Why do people work unpaid overtime? We show that remarkable long-term labor earnings gains are associated with unpaid … overtime in West Germany. A descriptive analysis suggests that over a 10-year period workers with unpaid overtime experience on … effects of unpaid overtime work. Our results point to the importance of investment in current working hours beyond the …
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Overtime Work, Overtime Compensation and the Distribution of Economic Well-Being Evidence for the West Germany and Great Britain
Pannenberg, Markus; Wagner, Gert G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
Using panel data for West Germany and Great Britain, we show that there are striking differences in overtime work and … overtime compensation in the two countries in the 1990s. Our estimates reveal that the observed overtime patterns affect both … performance-related pay and unpaid overtime in Great Britain is an important factor in explaining the observed differences. With …
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The Impact of Employee Stock Options on the Evolution of Compensation in the 1990s
Mehran, Hamid; Tracy, Joseph - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2001
Between 1995 and 1998, actual growth in nominal compensation per hour (CPH) accelerated from approximately 2 percent to 5 percent. Yet as labor markets continued to tighten in 1999, the growth in CPH paradoxically slowed. In this article, we attempt to solve this aggregate wage puzzle by...
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Insider reporting obligations and options backdating
Compton, Ryan; Sandler, Daniel; NIcholls, Christopher; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
In April 2010, new rules governing the reporting of securities trades by insiders of reporting issuers came into effect in Canada. These new rules were embodied in National Instrument 55-104, and in contemporaneous harmonized changes to Ontario’s Securities Act. Under the new regime, the...
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Die Arbeitslosenversicherung in Deutschland – Beitrag zur Bekämpfung oder Ursache von Arbeitslosigkeit
Breiding, Torsten - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Abstract German (English abstract is added below) Arbeitslosigkeit gilt als eines der schwerwiegendsten gesellschaftlichen Probleme unserer Zeit. Doch welche Gründe liegen, trotz der über die Jahre eingeleiteten Maßnahmen zur Bekämpfung der Arbeitslosigkeit, für die anhaltende...
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Evasion costs and the theory Of conscription
Warner, John; Negrusa, Sebastian - In: Defence and Peace Economics 16 (2005) 2, pp. 83-100
Many countries of Europe are moving from conscripted to volunteer military forces. This paper examines the current status of those conversions and interprets them in light of an economic model of the military manpower procurement system choice developed in Warner and Asch (1996). The theoretical...
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The Contribution of the Minimum Wage to U.S. Wage Inequality over Three Decades: A Reassessment
Autor, David; Manning, Alan; Smith, Christopher L. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
We reassess the effect of state and federal minimum wages on U.S. earnings inequality using two additional decades of data and far greater variation in minimum wages than was available to earlier studies. We argue that prior literature suffers from two sources of bias and propose an IV strategy...
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Creación de una carga impositiva por contaminación ambiental para el sector vehicular de servicio público colectivo en la ciudad de Bogotá
Duque, Javier Andrés Soto; Garzón, Alexander Sellamén - In: REVISTA CRITERIO LIBRE (2011)
resumeNEl documento trata una de las problemáticas más latentes en la eracontemporánea de Bogotá, la que representa la contaminación ambientalproducida por la emisión de gases con efecto invernadero que es provocadapor los vehículos automotores, especialmente de servicio público....
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